Bobby Pierce did not have the Dirt Track World Championship weekend he was hoping for at West Virginia Motor Speedway.
Pierce was looking to be the first person ever to win the race three times in a row and the odds of that happening seemed to be good given how he performed earlier in the year at West Virginia Motor Speedway. When the World of Outlaws Late Model Series visited in June, Pierce left with a win and a fourth place finish. However, a threepeat was not in the cards.
Pierce looked decent to start the event. He qualified sixth in his group with a time of 14.676. That gave him a third place starting position for his heat race and that’s where he would finish. He started the Group B feature 11th, and ran around in the 13th position for much of the race, but fell to finish 16th.
That performance buried Pierce in points. He was 32nd with 150, good enough for a fifth starting position in the UNOH B-Main #2, where only the top two transfer. Things went from bad to worse as he broke with three laps to go and ended up finishing in 10th. He was running in fifth at the time. He did not start the Jim Dunn Non-Qualifier Race and thus failed to make the 100-lap feature.
Pierce reacted to the weekend in a post to Facebook, “Not much luck lately
That’s okay.. There’s always another weekend & that usually means another race. Another chance to make it 30 wins on the year. 
” Pierce currently has a total of 29 wins. So he needs just one more to get to 30.
He also shared what got him behind on Saturday night and eventually what caused him to fade in his B-Main on Sunday.
“On prelim night, all it took was one hard hit to the wall in the primary car, & after that I was just hanging on to finish the race.. so that started us deep in the B main for Sunday,” he explained.
The team then went to their backup car for Sunday, but suffered “a random failure in our backup car.” He added that it “ended our day pretty quickly before the track even started to widen out.”
Pierce is looking to put the weekend behind him as he has a busy schedule for this upcoming weekend. He will be competing at Volunteer Speedway for the FloRacing Night in America Series. Pierce is currently fourth in the series’ points standings, 78 behind current leader Brandon Sheppard, but the series will drop a driver’s two worst finishes at the end of the season.
As it currently stands, Pierce’s two worst finishes are a DNQ at Eldora and a ninth place at Fairbury Speedway. If those two are dropped his worst finish is a third, which he’s done three times with the series at Spoon River, Lincoln, and Mason City. He also has two wins at Marshalltown and Lincoln Park.
Pierce finished third at Volunteer back in March with the Outlaws. That’s one of five starts Pierce has at the track since 2021 according to The Third Turn. He previously finished 21st in the Flo race in October 2021, 11th in the XR Workin’ Man race in April 2023, 12th in the XR Super Series race in April 2023, and 13th last year in the Flo race in September. He has an average finish of 12th at the track.
After the FloRacing Night in America race at Volunteer, Pierce will head south to continue World of Outlaws Late Model competition with a doubleheader at Modoc Speedway. Pierce currently has a 96-point advantage over Nick Hoffman with just five races left in the series.
He also indicated he might head to a fourth race this weekend, but noted the “jury still out on this one.” There is the $30k to-win Blue-Grey 100 race at Cherokee Speedway sanctioned by the Southern All Stars on Sunday that could be a prime option.
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